Local Ontario Works office
- provides assistance for emergency housing if you have become
homeless even if you are not currently a recipient of Ontario Works.
If you are a recipient of Ontario Works (or Ontario Disability) and
are being evicted for rent arrears, you can ask for help from the
Housing and Homelessness Fund to
help pay these arrears and prevent your eviction or to pay start up
costs at a new residence.

Hastings County

Are you homeless? In Hastings County, anyone
who is in a homeless situation between 8:30 am - 4:30 pm should call
613-771-9630 or 1-866-414-0300 or report directly to the nearest
Ontario Works office. Outside of these hours, you can call
1-866-317-6544 (Canadian Red Cross).

Hastings Housing Resource Centre
(HHRC) - provides assistance locating and securing immediate
temporary and permanent housing for residents of Hastings County.
They provide listings of available housing, information and support
to tenants. Landlords can list units for free.

The HHRC provides
emergency assistance informationon their site. This
emergency help page will provide you with information (for
Belleville, Quinte West, Centre Hastings and
North Hastings) on the following:

housing

food

shelters (for women and children)

addiction

financial assistance (Ontario Works emergency
fund, community trust)

counselling

medical help

clothing

Food Resources

Hastings & Prince Edward Counties

Food Access Guide - The Hastings & Prince Edward Health Unit
website has links to the Food Access Guide, which provides
information about free or low cost food and meal programs in
Hastings and Prince Edward Counties. The guide is divided into
6 geographic areas: Belleville, Central Hastings, North Hastings,
Prince Edward County, Quinte West and South East Hastings.

Lennox & Addington County

Good Food Box - Napanee -
The Napanee Community Health Centre (6 Dundas Street East in
Napanee) has become an ordering/host site for both the Good Food Box
and the Healthy Lunch box. Both of these programs are coordinated by
the Salvation Army locally. Anyone can order either of these boxes
as the value is generated by purchasing in bulk so the more orders
the better the value!

Advocacy Centre for the Elderly - a clinic specializing in
assisting low income seniors. Their
Elder Abuse page provides definitions of abuse and links to
FAQ's, ACE publications and other sources of information.

MadocThree Oaks Foundation (613) 473-1976 or Toll Free 1-888-275-0710 (Note: Madoc office doesn’t actually
have a shelter. The office is for ongoing counselling and outreach
purposes. You can call this number in any event and if need be the
call will be directly rolled over to the
Belleville line, and the Belleville office will make shelter
arrangements.)

Counselling

Sexual Assault Centre Quinte &
District - Free counselling for women/men survivors of historical
sexual abuse or recent sexual assault. Counselling is available for
survivors, and they also provide support and information for parents and
partners of survivors, including counselling services for non-offending
parents of child victims.

Sexual Assault Centre Kingston
- provides free, confidential, short-term and long-term counseling to female
survivors of sexual violence. A First Response Worker is at the Napanee and
Area Community Health Centre office one Friday every month.

This site provides general information
only, specific to Ontario, Canada. It is NOT legal advice.
Please call us or a lawyer in your area for advice on your particular
situation. Visit the
Legal Aid Ontario site to find a clinic in your area.